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Re: formatting dates

by Albannach (Prior)
on Oct 06, 2003 at 13:19 UTC ( #296927=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to formatting dates

I would use the regex by reflex, I think the unpack is pretty cool, and for yet more TIMTOWTDI, this is just ammo for those that like to benchmark substr against regexen: 

$date = 'yyyymmdd';
substr($date,$_,0) = '-' for(6,4);

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Update: stupid typo fixed

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